I thought the whole WuTang style was a good idea, but then I thought about the logistics of it, and the geographic locations of people can make things very hard. Sometimes theres nothing better for coming up with new material without having a "Jam Session" everyone pooling ideas and skillz at the same time. The Wu were all local to each other, getting them in the studio together was easy. I think the common input all the way through an album allows it to be more of an album(as a peice) and less of a compilation of tracks.
Ill Compilations describes it exactly as it is. Different artists sound completely different have different ideas about what they want to represent, and acheive. I think the idea for developing individual artists(mainly based on locale) would be more productive and more coherent, with the odd guest producer for a bonus remix, or just a guest production. Its a matter of getting the mc's sorted into either groups or solo acts, then assigning a producer/producer partnership to produce each album. If its going to be done right then sample clearance is a must otherwise no samples. Thats where a bit of outside collaboration could be necessary, like someone who can play bass guitar, improvises a bassline. Or a keyboard/pianist can knock up some keys or a melody. A dj can provide cuts. An engineer can do the final mixdown. We have a great pool of skillz here at ill, its just tapping it. Now if samples arent used and the material is 100% original then money can be made, even if its a little through sales of the albums. If it contains samples and they havent been cleared then expect trouble if you try to sell or make money from it. But still with a finished product, advertising costs money, theres no getting around it, and promotion can get expensive, just for a single, let alone an album.
At first to be honest its gonna have to be for the love of hiphop and for its furtherment over the number of zero's attatched to our bank balance.
